IN A WORLD... WHERE YOUR NOVEL BECOMES A MOVIE... what would your trailer look like?

That's alright! Yep, I did it on purpose - I started planning this story while my power was out during Irene.

Opens with picture of a jungle
Voice: It was a green world, where people lived in harmony with the nature
Cut - fingers lighting a match and dropping to the ground
Voice: It took courage to destroy paradise
Cut- A young man, face scarred, eyes covered with bandana, smiling
Cut- Second young man, back turned, revealing a tattoo covering his whole back, depicting a fish
Cut - Third young man, holding a machete, slashing a tree that drips red blood-looking liquid
Cut - Young woman, standing in a room, looking at a hologram of a huge city, covering her whole view, touching it, tears in her eyes
Cut - Planet, surrounded by black space, with the title text: "Green World"

when the girl first speaks she was supposed to say win not wing. sorry

I would read that book and see the movie!!!!! Sounds really awesome!!!!

Wow, That sounds cool!

Possible rating: PG-13 (maybe R)

Everything is black.
Music starts to play and we see a girl lying in the middle of the field.

Girl VO: In the early fall, thoughts of the Rebirth were completely off most people's minds.

Fade to black.

The girl that was in the field is standing with a boy and a girl. The boy is looking down at his feet, obviously upset

Girl: What's wrong?

Other girl: His brother was Removed

Fade to black

Text on screen: They thought they were trying to make things better...

Other girl is sitting with first girl
OG: I have an idea

Black. Text on screen: But then only made things worse

Girl: What?
OG: I'm going to stop the Rebirth.

Rapid images of people crying, a man sitting on a couch motionless holding a photograph of a woman, a crowd of people wearing the same clothes and looking grey and miserable.

Fades to black once again, text fades on screen: The Rebirth: Removal

Hmm... mine is definitely R-rated.

[upbeat sounds of someone clapping and drum beats in rhythm a.k.a. Dead Man's Bones's Lose Your Self]
[overhead view of Kuala Lumpur at night, the slow night traffic near LDP, flashes of screams, and sounds of hissing and skin and blood bubbling through]
Anya (fingers drags through her hair, her eyes were sunken and shadowed): I missed something before.
[flashes of sharp metallic equipments, vials of liquid injected into bloodstream, dilated pupils, blood red tears, sounds of heavy object fell into a lake in a loud splash]
Anya : I-I cant let it happen again. Not with him like this. (her voice breaks with Anya crying against the palm of a man who was lying on a bed in dead coma)
[flashes of sounds of siren blaring through the streets and a car slammed hard to the side of the road. beakers and thin glasses utensils breaking on the floor. Anya's face covered in blood, breathing hard in exertion with her gun cocked to the side of her head. Her eyes were darting side while sounds of footsteps nearing]
[fade out]

*Tragic music plays quietly*
Black screen. Then there are flames, distorted and warped. Distant screams.
A whisper; "They are all gone."
More flames. Distorted slow motion of a horse and rider, and somebody on foot. Flash of steel, and red.
"Dead, killed when I was a child."
The flames flicker out. Black screen again
"I am the last one."
A flash of a sword, a woman screams.
"I am..."
Music begins playing; not tragic, but with beating as scenes fade in and out (like the Star Wars trailers with the Darth Vader breathing)
Someone appears; a teenage boy, 17, walking forward on a field at twilight, sword drawn. Fades out, switches; a woman, 26, a Queen, on the same field, slamming a staff down as the screen fades again. Switches; a man, 23, close up of drawing the bow back. Fades out, switches; a Princess and a Prince, back to back, surrounded by soldiers, each holding weapons and preparing to fight the soldiers. Fades out.
Flames light up the background. A silhouette appears in the flames, hair and cloak blowing.
The voice again; "I am the Last Shadow."
The flames leap higher and the screen goes white for a brief second, before turning black again. Music fades in; one single note, played long and slow. The title, flickering with flames, appears;
T H E L A S T S H A D O W
Last sounds fade away.



Rated PG-13 for violence.

MY NOVEL: THE MOVIE

dun dun dun...

The trailer for my movie would show many numbers... Think, Numb3rs... Like, lots of flashing numbers going everywhere across the screen. And then there would be a scene of a little girl, crying desperately and on her own. Teenagers running, and then the general, dramatic turn as they see something coming from behind them. The narration: IN A WORLD WHERE ORDER IS MAINTAINED TO THE LETTER... SIX TEENAGERS ARE TRYING TO MAKE A STAND...

Then suddenly, a change of scene. Two boys, holding hands underneath a large tree. Another boy lifting the little girl onto his shoulder and smiling at her mother. Two girls, staring into each others. ALL FOR THE DESPERATION CREATED BY LOVE.

In the background would be a classical score, with really hell-like music, think Dies Irae... And then as the scene changes, it moves into something gentle...

My novel would probably be rated M in australian ratings... I think that's R.

Trailer for a movie of my book? I'll give it a shot I guess.

[black screen with Kristen's voice] “You ever feel like you're being tortured, because your parents won't let you buy some crap or go somewhere? Ever been grounded and wanted to run away to be free? Ever hated your parents so much you wanted to die? Have you ever felt sorry for yourself? Suck it up."
Kristen jumps out of a manhole and slams the metal disk into the side of a guy’s head. She rolls under another guy’s legs and snaps up to kick a third guy into a pole across the street. Before guy number two can move, she stares at him and he falls to the ground screaming.
[Black screen] “That’s right, I can make powers look scary, but I’m not the only one.”
A woman’s dreaming of running through a field to her fiancé and Lea pops up in her way. Everything turns dark and the woman wakes up screaming. Kristen grins cheerfully, “Enjoying your stay?”
Skips to Ben running past a guy, up a wall, and kicks a guy off the side of a building. He leaps off, raises his arms, and shoots energy out at the man, who is slammed into the ground one hundred feet below. Nick teleports to Ben, grabs his shoulder, and teleports to the top of the building.
Kristen walks over to the edge and spits off the building, “This time, it isn’t a battle. This time, it’s war.”
Nick grinning, “Whatever, as long as there’s good food.”
Skips to the ‘Coming Soon in Whenever’
Ben smacking Nick in the head, "What would you know about good food?"
[Fades to black screen with white words] “Prepare yourself.”

Opens with a close-up of a blue eye with makeup, then slowly zooms out as a young female voice narrates:
"Hi, I'm Wendy. I'm incredibly lucky. I'm normal. I wear makeup, admire models in magazines, hang out with friends, and fight with my little brother. I'm just like you." The camera zooms out enough to reveal her entire face, blonde wavy hair in low pigtails, clear skin, and a large scar over her left eye with it glazed over.
Wendy: (speaking aloud) But something bad always happens my birthday.
[Screen suddenly turns to black]
[Happy lullaby music plays, no other audio] scenes of a little blonde girl with pigtails playing with a ball, a pre-teen Wendy laughing with friends at a sleepover, [music transitions to strings version of lullaby] the little blonde girl in a hospital bed with a bandage over her left eye, a pre-teen boy with dark hair hanging by his ankle high on a flagpole, a car crashing into a tree, a teenage Wendy sobbing in a hospital hallway, an unknown pregnant woman stroking her belly with a single lock of wavy blonde hair going down to her elbow, a black limo pulling up to a house and a man with dark hair stepping out.
[Screen suddenly turns to black]
[Fading from black, a close-up of Wendy again] Always.

Mine would be kinda of similar to Jhanneanderson's, somewhat I should say but not quite. I say that because ours are both about someone killing others.

Older teenage girl with long blond hair(Claressa) walks the dark streets of the city with a dark hooded cape on. -Mysterious actionish music- The scene is very dark, and the screen keeps flashing from the scene to black, every time zooming in a little bit on her face and then her eyes, which start turning a crimson red. (If you have seen Naruto, thing of the akatsuki's sharingan, crimson red). Then imagine an older guy smoking while leaning on a brick wall in a dead end alleyway. He looks very sober and he mumbles under his breath. Claressa suddenly appears in the exit of the alley way, looking parinoid. (Camera zooms in on the mans mouth, which smirks up in happyness)

Man: I knew you'd come.
Claressa: Yeah, sure. But I'm not here for small talk.
(Claressa dashes forward and pulls her hands out of her cape, where you can see her hands are balled up. The man and Claressa have an epic battle scene, where there are alot of flips of the walls. After a flash of white light, you see the man thrown against the wall, where you can hear his spine break and fall lifeless to the ground. Claressa falls dizzyily to the ground, and then looks across the way at the man. She quickly gets up and leaves, her cape wooshing and fading the screen to black. then you hear her say, " That is where my life began, and so the world came to hunt me down."

Imagining my novel as a movie is seriously one of the things that inspired and motivated me to start in the first place. Writing a novel is only half of my dream, having it become a movie is the other half.

It would begin by fading in from a black screen, while the Shayne(The main character) reads off the first paragraph of the novel. As the screen lightens a montage of the day to day live of the communities Raider's begins to play, the audience sees the main characters in good light, and a few average citizens whom their close with.
And then it freezes on one scene.
Shayne: Andrew's....dead?
Allen: He was killed on last night's raid.
[flash of light]
We see a green stretch of land and a shed, in which we can see what appears to be the nose of a fighter jet.
Kayte: What is this plan exactly?
Allen: To remove the Marks family from power and start setting the world straight again. We can't do this without you girls, without both of you.
Shayne: I'm in.
[flash of light]
The camera is sprayed with the mist from a waterfall as Allen take's Shayne's hand
Allen: So you'll jump with me?
[fade to black]
We seen a wasteland with cracked dirt and dying plants, a few towns in the distance, and the camera pans around to find our leads standing in their Raider gear.
Kayte: Is this what the Surface is really like?
Allen: Lets get going, we're not coming back this time.

that is right so close some lights,grab some popcorn and start your movie trailor now!!!

I'll try a stab at this...

(Scene opens with the Harlands at the dinner table)
Nat: Look... (shows ring on hand)
Mrs Harland: Oh my goodness, congratulations! (Rich is staring wide-eyed at the ring on hand as she says this)
(Fade to black)
(Scene of plane flying through sky while Mine [Taylor Swift] is playing in background)
Rich's Voice: I never thought about the day my sister will get married that much. I doubted that it'll roll around so soon. Much less around my birthday, in Disney World, and to such a big family.
(Fade to airport, where Harlands are meeting Carlsons. Mr Carlson outstretches his hand and introduces his family while camera flashes to their faces while he's saying their names)
Mr Carlson: Jonathan Carlson, and this is my wife Evelyn, and my kids Whitney, Zachary, and Haley.
Mr Harland: (takes Mr Carlson's hand and shakes it) Gabe Harland. (flash to Haley, who is staring at Rich's friend Nick. Nick smiles a bit and Haley looks away) Nice to meet you
(Montage of time at Disney World in which both Haley and Rich are sulking through it)
Rich's Voice: Every moment I spent with this family, I just wanted to scream and get the heck out of there. It didn't help that I had to be grouped in the same group as Haley Carlson
(Flash to Haley and Rich arguing in hotel hallway)
Haley: I hate you and this whole place! I wish Kyle never had to marry your sister!
Rich: Well I wish Nat doesn't have to marry your brother!
(Pause as the two realize, flash to Haley and Rich talking. Hey Soul Sister is the music now)
Haley: Wait, so you don't want this wedding as much as I do?
Rich: I think so
Haley: Do you know what this means?
Rich: That we can ruin this wedding together?
Haley: Uh-huh, you betcha
(Flash to Rich talking with Nick)
Nick: Uh-uh, no way am I getting into this insane idea
Rich: Please?
(Nick looks at Rich, who is practically pleading, and gives in)
(Cue montage of Haley, Nick, and Rich doing various things: spying on Nat and Kyle while they plan the wedding, Haley "falling" down right into the cake, Haley and Rich on the phone, Haley and Nick kissing on the balcony only to be interrupted by Rich, etc.)
Rich's Voice: I never really thought I could get along with Haley, but it seemed like we were more alike than we thought. I'm not really sure if we could pull it off, but all I know, that we're on the Most Magical Place on Earth, so anything's possible.
(Cue Title--A Disney Wedding--with a little sparkle around it)

Rating? Definitely at least PG

[[The trailer opens up with a shot of a decaying Earth rotating in space.]]

Female Narrator: It never occurred to the Humans that they would have to one day leave their Earth. It made them laugh when they heard the first Human scientist tell them the atmosphere was no longer stable enough to hold in oxygen or keep dangerous UV rays from entering their normally safe area of living. [[The moon blocks the picture for a moment as it passes, the whole right side is covered in trash and abandoned cities.]] No, they thought that scientist was insane.

[[Suddenly, large, white cruise liner/space ship-like transporters with "BETA" stamped on the sides shoot out into space in all directions then converge on the camera. A flash of white brings a scene of another planet. One side is desert while the other is covered in massive mountains blanketed with pure white snow. Along border between these two halves is a lush, green forest.]]

Female Narrator: Unlike the small and disobedient Humans of Earth, we, the ones you so eloquently call "Demons," do what is necessary to make sure we survive as well as all plant and life forms that we interact with.

[[The scene shifts to two crouching aliens on a sandy dune overlooking the horizon. One of them, a catish lizard-like male, turns his eyes to the sky and says something to the other larger, blood red life form. She looks up and her eyes widen in shock as the blue sky begins to turn red.]]

Female Narrator: When the Humans came down for the sky, we tried to make peace. [[The red alien and her catish companion rush to a scene of carnage and chaos. The BETA ships are littered across the whole desert. Fire and smoke engulf their view as they dive into the nearest ship.]] We tried to help them leave. [[The humans and all kinds of aliens are working together.]] However, everything changed when that... thing entered power. [[A man in his mid-forties sits at his desk in a small room. The red alien and her companion stand before them, calmly speaking to him. Black flashes across the screen.]]

Female Narrator: The way of my people is a rather simple one: you survive as long as you are willing to learn from your mistakes and make something good out of them. [[The red alien drags her companion out of a lopsided building, covered in Human blood. She turns around and roars in anger, exposing her rows upon rows of razor-sharp teeth.]] If we tripped, we caught ourselves and made sure to remember why we tripped and how to avoid doing it again. If we got cut during a physical exercise... [[She raises her empty, clawed hand up and screams a spell.]] ... we made sure to cut the one who cut us. [[The building she escaped from implodes and the screen turns back.]]

[[A young girl (Xander) sits in a chair in a small ten by ten room with a man dress in military garb (Cravings). She leans forward in her seat.]]

Cravings: So, you want to be in the Black Ops program, huh? And at Timberlake, no less! Aiming high enough?
Xander: [[smiles sweetly]] Someone has to kill those murderous Demons, right?

[[The scene fades to black and comes back in a wild flash of light from three suns over the desert. The camera turns from the sky to the sandy ground where an army of humans armed with sharp objects. They're all dressed in heavy tan cloaks and thick shirts. The camera flies over the length of the army and turns toward a massive fortress-like school. "Timberlake" flashes along the bottom of the screen. The speed of the camera picks up and zooms in to Xander.

Xander: (raises her gun) Bring it on, ya jerks.

Female Narrator: Would you be amazed if I told you that Human was actually the hero of my people?

[[The screen flashes with images of Xander and an older male (Damien) running through the woods, digging holes in the sand, walking on a sea of glass, jumping off of dragon aliens and diving into the water below them, casting fire and darkness magic at a sea of military officers, and standing on a pile of black bones.]]

Damien: (smirking at Xander) Not too much.
Xander: (frowning) that's because you're stupid.
Damien: Whatever.

[[The screen fades to black.]]

Humanity
Rated R
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

[[End of Trailer]]

My trailer would have the song Tears by Aly and AJ playing in the background.
(Here's a link to hear it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2f3flaHoV8&feature=related)
I want it to be very mysterious, and it won't explain anything and it won't give anything away.
At first you would see the title, The Life of Lucy, fading onto the screen with a black background.
Then you'll see a 16-year-old girl looking out of a car window as the car drives past a sign that says Welcome to the town of Mystery then the car stops and arrives at a creepy old house. She'll get out from the backseat and then look back at the house to see a boy her age staring at her from the attic window with significant emerald eyes.
Then the screen will flash white to show Lucy looking down from a staircase at her parents having a private conversation.
Her mom says: "Do you think she's seen him?"
Her dad responds: "“I’m not sure.”
Then her mom says: "My mother tried to protect us from all of this a long time ago… Do you think it is safe here David?”
Her dad responds: “Everything is going to be fine Charlotte. This isn’t like when you were a child and lived here, this time will be different.”
The screen goes white again and you see Lucy talking to Oliver (the boy in the window).
Lucy says: “Why are you here?”
Oliver says: "It's complicated."
The screen goes white again and then reveals Lucy sitting at a lunch table with her friend Nissa.
Nissa says: "Well, according to legend this town of Mystery was founded on a paranormal rift of energy.”
Lucy: "What does that mean?”
Nissa: “It means that creatures were drawn to this area by some kind of unseen magic.”
The screen goes to white one last time to show Lucy and Oliver together again.
Oliver says: "What do you want to know?"
Lucy says: "Everything."
You see Oliver smile and then respond: "We have a long night ahead of us Lucy Fey."
And then the screen goes black and it says when the theoretical movie comes out.
So what do you guys think?

Male MC, Ralph, voiceover: “Destiny is a hard thing to escape.”
Female MC, Anima, dressed in ragged clothing and covered in dirt and dried blood. She’s standing on a mountain, looking down at a town below.
Cut to a newspaper with a headline that reads: Victim # 13, Will This Killer Ever Stop?
Cut to a beautiful woman, dressed in a Victorian-style dress, sitting in a chair, smiling, with a fan held just in front of her chin.
Cut to identical little boys, smiling. Zoom out to show them standing in a room covered in blood, with dismembered body parts everywhere.
Cut to a large ghostly wolf (male voice): “Even when I tell you you’re an idiot, you still don’t listen.”
Ralph voiceover: “Oh, you may think you’ve escaped it, but something’ll eventually come along and prove you wrong.”
Cut to another large ghostly wolf, this one with a silver muzzle (female voice): “He will not stop, you know. Not until you confront him.”
Cut to a man wearing a mask like one you’d wear to a masquerade ball (Axel): “No matter how many times you change your name, your appearance, your country. No matter how many times you change, it will find you. It will always find you.”
Cut to Nana, looking angry: “What do you mean you don’t know what to do? You’re a guardian. Guard!”
Cut to the main villain (no name yet), holding Anima up by her throat. Ralph tackles him.
Cut to a woman, Clarette, casting a spell while the man beside her, Kevin, shoots a gun.
Ralph voiceover: “Believe me. I’ve spent centuries running. And the bitch still finds me. Every. Time.”
Cut to a bouquet of black roses on a bright red background. The title (still undecided) forms in wispy gray letters.